by Larry Sivitz When King County’s king of E-tailing, Amazon.com, announced they were purchasing the legendary online shoe and apparel company known as Zappos in 2009 for upwards of $928 million, the Amazonians declared they would not disturb one stone in the rock garden of the Las Vegas-based company’s inspired corporate quarry. There was a [...]
There are some companies that can trace their origins to soft-selling, including to the opposite sex. Facebook lore has it that the fabled business actually got started as a way for Mark Zuckerberg to meet attractive young co-eds on the Harvard campus and invite them to see their faces in Facebook. At the Apple store [...]
Have you ever watched a snowboarder launch 20 feet above a half pipe and execute a twisting 360 rotation, or a downhill skier fly off a mogul at 90 mph? How about a competitive biker cascading down a mountain path of air, stream and rock? What could be more exciting? How about seeing it through [...]
In what promises to be the Puget Sound high tech community Awards gala of not just this year, but the past twenty-five years, the WTIA and the Paramount Theater will play host to the 25th Anniversary of the Industry Achevement Awards. on March 25, 2009. “Our panel of judges spent countless hours evaluating a record-breaking [...]
The Garrigan Lyman Group has been selected as the agency to create and launch a new website for the Seattle Museum of Flight and its campaign to bring the NASA Space Shuttle to Seattle. Boasting the tagline, ‘There is no better Space on Earth,’ the campaign positions MOF against 20+ museums around the country competing [...]
Once voted the best place to have a heart attack (because so many of our citizens know CPR), the heart of the greater Seattle Web community is beating loudly these days for its vitality with health matters online. Perhaps no one is doing more for global health than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from [...]
Mobile media. Social media. Analytics. Search advertising. Engagement mapping. To blend the bumper crop of Internet marketing products stored inside its various silos, Microsoft officially rebranded those assets as Microsoft Advertising at the recent advance08 Leadership Summit. Simply put, Microsoft Advertising puts all the company’s tools and solutions for advertisers, ad agencies and publishers under [...]
Marc D. Snyder, Founder of Careers.Org, Remains With Domain as Chief Content Manager Domain Strategies, a Monster Venture Partners company and a leader in building businesses on premium domains like Healthcare.com, Patents.com, Alerts.com and Wifi.com, is pleased to announce a partnership with Marc D. Snyder to build on the success of www.Careers.Org and develop the [...]
In the new era of Social Media and RSS syndication, Web publishers can cut the ties that bind them to a single, physical Web page, and cut across time-worn practices to new methods of content collaboration. Was this the inspiration for the birth of Crosscut, the decidedly different online news publication by former Seattle Weekly [...]
by Larry Sivitz and Jennifer Grimes The season’s two major search marketing conferences, WebmasterWorld/PubCon in Las Vegas and Search Engine Strategies in Chicago faced a showdown this year, ready to drag race down the spectacular Las Vegas strip and Chicago’s Miracle Mile, respectively, from their usual pre-holiday pole positions. Only this time the inside track [...]
